13 Related Articles, between 2019-08-01 and 2019-08-05

As heavy bombing hits northwest, Syrian army takes villages. Syrian soldiers have gained some ground in the country's last rebel bastion during a Russian-backed offensive that aid agencies warn is growing bloodier. >>

No air strikes in Syria's northwest as ceasefire declared: Observatory. Syrian and Russian warplanes mounted no air strikes in the rebel-held northwest on Friday after a ceasefire was announced, a war monitor said, after three months of violence that has killed hundreds while failing to yield big territorial gains. >>

Photographer with 'zero enemies' killed in 'Russian airstrike'. Anas al-Dyab, a Syrian photographer and a member of the volunteer search and rescue group known as the White Helmets, died on Sunday. He was 23. >>

Rebels say Russia-led raids target cities in Syria northwest. Syrian rebel commanders and rights groups said on Monday Russia and its Syrian ally are stepping up aerial strikes on heavily populated cities, in a new and bloodier phase of a three-month-old assault on the last opposition bastion in the northwest. >>

Russia helps Syrian government forces recover area in northwest. More than 400 civilians have been confirmed killed in the escalation of violence in northwestern Syria over the last three months and more than 440,000 displaced >>

Russia: Syrian militants shelled suburbs of Hmeimim air base - RIA. Syrian militants have shelled the outskirts of the Hmeimim air base in northwest Syria, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday. >>

Russian-backed government forces recover area in northwestern Syria. Syrian government forces have recovered control of two villages in northwestern Syria from rebel fighters who withdrew following intensive air and artillery bombardment, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. >>

The Latest: Russia says attack on its Syria base injures 4. Russia's military says militants fired 3 unguided rockets at its air base in Syria, injuring 4 civilians but causing no damage to the facility >>